It approximately 1hour 10mins to run the salvager and attach the
volumes in this environment. This seems to be about the same as our
current AFS setup which is running ext2. But what reiserfs does not need
to do is an fsck(8) that is unless there are media errors found. Then
reiserfsck(8) needs to be run.

What this boils down to is that if an AFS fileserver is recovering
from a crash that does not involve disk media error the AFS volumes can
become available (depending on the number of volumes) approximately 1 hour
sooner. This is because the *fsck(8) does not by default run at boot time
on the reiserfs file systems.